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6th town - Marble or Wine?

I have 5 towns now 2 Marble and one of everything else. I would like to hear your opinions as for where to place 6th town? Considering the following information from my marketplace, wine which is currently on sale:

And myself currently selling it for 15 per peace... Anyways, my thoughts are still linked to 2nd Wine town because I've no wine presses in any of my towns... only wine grower. So far it is more than enough for all 5 towns but to grow bigger and make more $$$ I'll need level 20 taverns. What do you think?

Other than that, I've both Forester(level 7) and Carpenter(level 13) in all 5 towns, however I still feel the shortage of wood. I've built Architect's buildings in both Marble towns too.

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I just slapped down my 6th town. I had the same setup as you - 2 marble, one of everything else. For my 6th, I went with wine.

I believe that you can maintain 6 towns with a single wine island, but you'd need high level wine presses in all your towns, a high level wine grower for your wine town, and helping hands when gathering wine. I don't want to bother with all that because I don't like cutting it that close, and I don't have the time to constantly micromanage everything to the degree where I have to send the exact right amount of wine to each colony. I also want to use my trade ships for shipping wine as little as possible because I need them for pillaging.

I think of it in this way - for each town I have that is on a wine island, I will never have to keep track of that town's wine supply.

I forgot who it was, but someone here had the idea to relocate all his towns to a single wine island and to simply pillage/trade for all other resources. I have to admit that it's quite tempting, considering that you would never have to ship wine or keep track of it ever again.

I forgot who it was, but someone here had the idea to relocate all his towns to a single wine island and to simply pillage/trade for all other resources. I have to admit that it's quite tempting, considering that you would never have to ship wine or keep track of it ever again.

A friend of mine on Epsilon had one marble and everything else was wine and he did just as you said, pillaged for everything else. He did fairly well as he had 7 towns and over 1 million total score.

I would go with wine for the same reasons that Eldracar stated. Having to constantly manage your wine shipments is a pain and wine is truly the only thing that you must have.

Well a floater is used to pillage a player who has lots of goods but is protected by a very large navy. Instead of wasting ships by blockading the target, you plant a floater colony. You send your land units to your floater and upgrade the warehouse to hold the goods. Then you only have to get through the towns land defenses to pillage the target. You can also use it to pillage targets who are far away.

yup277 wrote:Well a floater is used to pillage a player who has lots of goods but is protected by a very large navy. Instead of wasting ships by blockading the target, you plant a floater colony. You send your land units to your floater and upgrade the warehouse to hold the goods. Then you only have to get through the towns land defenses to pillage the target. You can also use it to pillage targets who are far away.

A floater is merely a temporary colony.

Wow, I would never think about this... thanks ! I'll definitely try that in the future but first I feel like I need 1 more wine and marble colony.